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Five years ago, Samsung unveiled a digital TV broadcasting technology that was optimized for mobile devices. Its still waiting to sell its first broadcast-enabled smartphones in the United States, just as the TV industry is still waiting for the notion of mobile DTV to take off. But there are signs that the wait may be coming to an end.

On Wednesday, a coalition of TV stations and networks announced a partnership with mobile phone company MetroPCS that will enable the latters customers in Los Angeles and 13 other markets to tune in the stations mobile DTV signals later this year. The first compatible device will be an Android smartphone made by Samsung, which will use a telescoping...

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BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- VoiceBox(R) Technologies Corp., the award-winning innovator of Personal Assistant voice interface technology, today announced that it was granted two additional US Patents in the areas of mobile voice technology and advertising applications. These grants further support the Company's competitive advantage in the growing Personal Assistant software market.

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Most of the 150,000 or so people who will attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week are executives and other staffers from companies in the tech industry: hardware makers, service providers, and retailers. Several thousand other attendees are mediafolk like me: reporters, bloggers, and analysts.

And the third most-represented group? It may well be celebrities. Theyre one of the most surefire ways to attract attention to a booth or a party, and so the companies exhibiting at the show bring them to Vegas by the truckload.

Some of the well-known people in attendance actually are into tech stuff: LeVar Burton, who I once had a pleasant chat with at a Monster...

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Few lizards may have known this, but they were upholding the principle of conservation of angular momentum by exploiting the moment of inertia.

Tightrope walkers, too, use this principle. They correct their balance by using a long pole. It is tilted to make the body lean in the opposite direction to the tilt.

The team, led by Robert Full of the University of California at Berkeley, built a lizard-sized robot car, complete with a tail controlled by gyroscopes, to see whether the lizards agility could be replicated by technology.

The Poly-PEDALlab (PEDALis an acronymfor performance enerergetics dynamic animal locomotion)at UCBerkley, researchers study the movement...

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Satellite broadcasters in China have cut entertainment TV by two-thirds following a government campaign, state news agency Xinhua has reported.

An order by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to curb excessive entertainment came into effect on 1 January.

The number of entertainment shows aired during prime time each week has dropped to 38 from 126, said the watchdog.

The news came as the president warned of the influence of Western culture.

In the piece published in a Communist Party magazine, President Hu Jintao also urged efforts to boost the countrys own soft power, said Xinhua.

The...

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Paizo Publishing and Dynamite Entertainment recently announced a collaborative initative to adapt the Pathfinder tabletop role-playing game into a comicbook.

Often referred to as Dungeons amp; Dragons 3.75, Paizos Pathfinder is a modded version of the popular Dungeons amp; Dragons game system, published by Wizards of the Coast.

As you may recall, Pathfinder was made possible by WotCs decision to publish Damp;D 3.0 and 3.5 on the basis of an open license system.

Many credit the development of Pathfinder, and its unexpected subsequent success for WotCs decision to publish their newest version, 4.0, without the open license. If thats the case, however, the damage...

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A man robbed Main Beauty Supply in Dallas this week at gunpoint, demanding all the cash in the register -- and a little something extra.

NBC reports that store employee Benitra Jackson was closing up for the night when a masked man stormed into the store with a weapon and ordered Jackson and her manager to the ground.

The perpetrator, Jackson says, had her surrender all the money in the register, including the change, which he said he needed because he had kids.

Then, the thief tossed in a stranger request: he demanded the hair extensions behind the counter.

Jackson says the man explained: he needed the best ones for his girlfriend. She obliged.

The...

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PASADENA, Calif. -- NBCs entertainment chief insists that it wasnt squeamishness over booze that got vodka dropped from the television version of Chelsea Handlers memoir.

Robert Greenblatt said Friday that the 2008 books title, Are You There, Vodka? Its Me, Chelsea, was just too long. Initially, NBC considered just calling the show Chelsea but settled instead on Are You There, Chelsea? and it debuts on the network next Wednesday.

There was no mandate from anyone saying dont put vodka in the title of the show, the entertainment president said.

Talk to the author, though, and thats not so clear. Handler said in a telephone conference call last month that although...

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In line with international trends and changing IT, Africans on the continent are increasingly using mobile technology and have become more technologically savvy than before, albeit at a slower pace than the rest of the world.

According to Reuters, with the recent staging of the mobile phone trade fair held in Togos capital Lome, Togo is hoping to close the technological divide by showcasing various mobile technologies that are available on the market.

In a world where businesses increasingly need to be in contact with their employees anytime and anywhere, African enterprises are taking note by encouraging the use of mobile phones to conduct business or for money transfer...

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